Russia on The Brink? ... how to you say Occupy in Russia?

The mood has shifted dramatically in Russia over the last year. Opposition movements from the Defenders of the Khimki forest to RosPil, Navalny’s anti-corruption whistleblowing website, have gained large followings. At the same time Putin’s seeming invincibility has begun to fade. (However, he remains a popular political figure in Russia.

Russia on The Brink?

Allegations of electoral fraud have sparked protests throughout Russia. As many as 6,000 people took to the streets of Moscow Monday night; several hundred protesters, including well known blogger and anti-corruption activist, Alexey Navalny, were arrested in Moscow and St. Petersburg (According to the BBC there were close to 600 arrests in Moscow alone). “The reaction to last weekend’s fraud-tainted parliamentary elections has been like nothing I have seen since the early 1990s,” wrote Maxim Trudolubov, an editor at the daily business newspaper Vedomosti. Full report HERE